Steinberg - Groove Agent 5 (licence)
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Groove Agent 5 by Steinberg, virtual instrument to create your rhythms, your beats, with acoustic and electronic sounds of drums and percussions. Electronic license, software to download.
ARTICLE N° 64664
Specifications
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Steinberg Groove Agent 5
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Downloadable license: you will receive your activation code by email, with the invoice
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GROOVE AGENT 5 NEW FEATURES AT A GLANCE:
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20 new MIDI styles with intro, ending, breaks and different complexities played by great drummers and mixed by the best sound engineers. They cover many genres including rock, progressive rock, blues rock, alternative rock, indie, funk, soul, jazz, fusion and reggae
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32 plugin outputs
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32 velocity levels
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Decompose to break down sounds into tonal components and noise elements for endless possibilities
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Drag and drop samples onto the pads. Create your own kits from single instruments, samples, or decomposed samples
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Drag and drop samples or MIDI grooves from Groove Agent to Cubase
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Sort content by instrument. New Beat Agent kits are also available as instrument presets
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Improved Style Player. New Auto Complexity mode with export options for complex passages and breaks
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Live sample your own samples directly into Groove Agent pads
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Load styles and MIDI with a simple double-click
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Over 30 new Beat Agent kits for dance, trap, future bass, drum 'n' bass, modern funk, and more
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New pitch modulation. Perfect complement to Decompose: change only the pitch of the tonal component and leave the noise as is
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New automatic complexity mode: After adding a drum break, you can choose how complex you want it to be
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New resizable, detachable and HD-screen compatible user interface
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Preview pads and styles: even during playback, you can change instruments and grooves to check if they are suitable
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New much easier to use pitch envelope
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Sample representation in envelope editors: show samples in the background of envelope editors
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Selectable automatic breaks: in the style player, select only the automatic breaks you want to use
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Solo in each layer: solo samples for pads using more than one layer
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Style player for Beat Agent: acoustic MIDI styles can now be played by electronic kits
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The Kit: top-tier acoustic drums recorded in studios Teldex from Berlin equipped with an echo chamber. The Kit is a Pearl bass drum and snare drum, four Yamaha Maple Custom toms, four Zildjian cymbals, an Istanbul ride and Paiste splashes. The Kit has 47 articulations, five round robins, up to 20 velocity levels and above all a very versatile sound that can be placed in multiple ways within a mix.
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Very "fat" drum kits designed by renowned producers in electro such as Audeka, Rawtekk, zKlang or Joe Ford
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Meticulously recorded acoustic sounds with many articulations
Presentation
Groove Agent 5 is the perfect tool for your rhythmic creations, whether you are a drummer or a beatmaker.
All sounds have been recorded with the greatest care with high-end equipment.
Some of the features of Groove Agent 5:
- Impro
The Jam mode creates backing tracks with intro, breaks and ending in an instant – ideal for practicing, improvising and mocking up ideas.
- Groove editing
Like a step sequencer, the pattern editor allows you to create complex rhythms by simply clicking in the grid.
- Live sampling
Record analog synth percussion, acoustic drums or any sound, manipulate them and make your own kits.
- Sound design
Creative effects, stacking of four different kits and new Decompose function to easily create your own signature sound.
- Like patterns, Beat Agent kits now have bass samples, melodies, hits and various noises. Another important new feature is that you can now use the style player for Beat Agent.
List of instruments provided in Groove Agent 5: - Kick Drum: Pearl Masters Birch Bass Drum 22” Remo Emperor clear batter head Remo Ambassador clear resonant head with 10” hole - Snare Drum: Pearl Free Floating Brass Shell 14” x 6.5” Remo Ambassador coated head Ambassador Snare resonant head - Toms: Yamaha Maple Custom 8”, 10”, 12”, 14” (deep shells) Remo Ambassador coated heads Remo Ambassador black resonant batter heads - Cymbals: Zildjian A 14” New Beat Hihat (vintage version, quite heavy) Zildjian A 17” Medium Thin Crash Zildjian A 18” Medium Thin Crash Zildjian K Custom 15” Brilliant Crash Zildjian K 21” Heavy Ride Zildjian K 17” Brilliant China Istanbul 20” Ride Paiste 2002 8” Splash Microphones selected for the recording of The Kit: - Kick in: AudioTechnica ATM-25 - Kick out: Neumann U47 FET - Snare drum top & bottom: Shure SM57 - HiHat close: Neumann KM84 - HiHat remote: Neumann U87 (set to cardioid ) - Toms: Neumann KM140 - Overheads A: Coles 4038 - Overheads B: Schoeps MK4 - Overheads C: Neumann U67 in M/S config (mixed to standard L/R stereo) - PZMs: Neumann GFM 132 - Room: Neumann KM84
Equipment used for the recording of The Kit:
- SSL9000J mixer
- Millenia HV-3D preamps for all overheads and PZM mics
- All other mics went directly into the SSL preamps
- Compressors:
Overhead A (Coles): Fairchild 670
Overhead B (Schoeps): PrismSound MLA-2
Overhead C (Neumann): M-signal: Urei1176 (S-signal uncompressed)
- PZMs: Manley Slam
- Kick drum inside: TubeTech CL 1B
- Snare drum top: TubeTech CL 1B
All sounds have been recorded with the greatest care with high-end equipment.
Some of the features of Groove Agent 5:
- Impro
The Jam mode creates backing tracks with intro, breaks and ending in an instant – ideal for practicing, improvising and mocking up ideas.
- Groove editing
Like a step sequencer, the pattern editor allows you to create complex rhythms by simply clicking in the grid.
- Live sampling
Record analog synth percussion, acoustic drums or any sound, manipulate them and make your own kits.
- Sound design
Creative effects, stacking of four different kits and new Decompose function to easily create your own signature sound.
- Like patterns, Beat Agent kits now have bass samples, melodies, hits and various noises. Another important new feature is that you can now use the style player for Beat Agent.
List of instruments provided in Groove Agent 5: - Kick Drum: Pearl Masters Birch Bass Drum 22” Remo Emperor clear batter head Remo Ambassador clear resonant head with 10” hole - Snare Drum: Pearl Free Floating Brass Shell 14” x 6.5” Remo Ambassador coated head Ambassador Snare resonant head - Toms: Yamaha Maple Custom 8”, 10”, 12”, 14” (deep shells) Remo Ambassador coated heads Remo Ambassador black resonant batter heads - Cymbals: Zildjian A 14” New Beat Hihat (vintage version, quite heavy) Zildjian A 17” Medium Thin Crash Zildjian A 18” Medium Thin Crash Zildjian K Custom 15” Brilliant Crash Zildjian K 21” Heavy Ride Zildjian K 17” Brilliant China Istanbul 20” Ride Paiste 2002 8” Splash Microphones selected for the recording of The Kit: - Kick in: AudioTechnica ATM-25 - Kick out: Neumann U47 FET - Snare drum top & bottom: Shure SM57 - HiHat close: Neumann KM84 - HiHat remote: Neumann U87 (set to cardioid ) - Toms: Neumann KM140 - Overheads A: Coles 4038 - Overheads B: Schoeps MK4 - Overheads C: Neumann U67 in M/S config (mixed to standard L/R stereo) - PZMs: Neumann GFM 132 - Room: Neumann KM84
Equipment used for the recording of The Kit:
- SSL9000J mixer
- Millenia HV-3D preamps for all overheads and PZM mics
- All other mics went directly into the SSL preamps
- Compressors:
Overhead A (Coles): Fairchild 670
Overhead B (Schoeps): PrismSound MLA-2
Overhead C (Neumann): M-signal: Urei1176 (S-signal uncompressed)
- PZMs: Manley Slam
- Kick drum inside: TubeTech CL 1B
- Snare drum top: TubeTech CL 1B
Information
Autonomous
No
Audio units
Yes
AAX Native
Yes
Downloadable version
Yes
Compatibility
MacOS, Windows
To go further...
Users who activated Groove Agent 4 after October 3, 2018, have the option to download the update to 5 for free.
System requirements:
- Windows 10 / 7 / 8 (64-bit)
- macOS High Sierra / macOS Sierra, min. 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended)
- 35 GB available disk space
- High-speed Internet connection (32 GB to download)
Requires an e-Licenser key for authorization, not provided. You can find it in our "You may also like" category, below.
System requirements:
- Windows 10 / 7 / 8 (64-bit)
- macOS High Sierra / macOS Sierra, min. 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended)
- 35 GB available disk space
- High-speed Internet connection (32 GB to download)
Requires an e-Licenser key for authorization, not provided. You can find it in our "You may also like" category, below.
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